This makes me remember this post on linux-kernel where Milan Roubal ask for help with breaking the 10 IDE devices "barrier":
ide9 at 0x5068-0x506f,0x5062 on irq 12
ide: at 0x6020-0x6027,0x6016 on irq 12
ide; at 0x6018-0x601f,0x6012 on irq 12
so ":" and ";" isn't ideal, hdparm dislikes
my devices hdx and so on. Now I would like to try
more than 20 ide devices in one computer and I would like to hear about any system solution of this real problem to me.
How about an "Ask Slashdot" with Hank Mishkoff of www.taubmansucks.com
and/or Paul Levy of Public Citizen? Their fight and eventual win against Taubman and their crooked lawyers (just read the account and you'll see -- they're lying and distorting throughout the process, and frankly I find it amazing what they *get away* with[0]) is not only important in itself, but the way Hank documented it is an inspiration to all. It provides real insight into fighting a corporation out the crush you.
Great work by the team of Public Citizen; Press Release (Won appeal)
Here's an article in the Dallas Observer about the case -- check the spin Taubman tries! (third paragraph from the end)
[0] Maybe we should Ask Slashdot with Julie from Gifford-Krass-Groh-Sprinkle and ask her how she sleeps at night. "Great", I guess:-\
The whole point of all this is to make it simple and efficient, which is to say cheap to do these transactions. Now you're saying that retailers -- in addition to the software for the Peppercoin system -- also need to invest in software and statisticians to make sure they're not being ripped off? Not to mention that a slight bias could require millions of transactions to detect.
As has been said, the article and the Peppercoin site both are devoid of any real details on this scheme. Unless there's a way around this trust problem, it could become a serious problem.
Arguments to the effect of "but you already have to trust someone" or "you must trust VISA" are all missing the point. Sharing the problems of other systems doesn't make this one any better, and it'll have to be significantly better for it to work.
We'll see, maybe Rivest will come around and explain it so even I can understand it.
Jee-aah! Another language! That's great, because we can never have too many of these. I was just thinking to myself, "Gee, I wish I had another markup language to learn".
I don't know if I've ever read anything by him before. I might have, once or twice. I think I remember seeing an alt.fan.dave-barry ng, or was that a.die.die.die? Maybe both.
Anyway, I laughed once, at the idea of a cell phone capable of jamming.
I saw some more attempts at being funny. They did not provoke the same erection. rejection. reaction. (<-- like that)
"Normally this would point back at the pc-link server and the streamium would just access the mp3 file through there, but you could give it a url for some mp3 stream somewhere on the internet."
The reason I see those as the most useful is because you typically do them while "off keyboard". If I open a new window it's very likely that I'm going to have to type something into it anyway, so opening the window using a guesture instead of pressing ctrl+n isn't a big win if you measure in "minimizing movement" which seems to be my optimization critera.
A case can be made for other functions in the same way -- reload certainly is "off keyboard", but I still hit F5 or click the reload-button, probably becase I'm so very used to it in conjunction with the relative rareness of that operation (as compared to navigation)
Of course the need for prototyping diminish as you move from "to boldly go.." to "let's crap out another pointless FPS clone".
It sounds to me that you describe a technical test and not a game-play protoptype, which would have most of the elements of the game, albeit in very nonpolished state, possibly hardcoded/scripted all the way.
You've _GOT_ to be kidding me. This is what the article says:
Meanwhile, "PlanetSide" is nearing completion, with a public beta test scheduled for the end of this month.
So far, so good... now here's the kicker:
The game, which has seen "drastic design changes in the last four months" according to McDaniel
So basically Scott McDaniel, which is the vice president of marketing and public relations for Sony Online Entertainment, is saying that instead of the QA-only sessions meant to go at the end of a project, they've just implemented DRASTIC DESIGN CHANGES and they're going to release it soon?!
Hello, anyone home? The PR-guy is basically confessing that this is going to be a fucked bugfest which was largely developed with no clear design in mind.
Sound great. Gotta admire the honesty though. Haha.
Because the people at the Department of Labor is as ignorant about encryption as whoever posted this here?
Actually I remember somewhere someone calling them up to find out if this was real (that is, if the contract happened). I don't remember the outcome of that, but it's probably googable.
Dear Slashdot. I'd like to know whatever happened to brave-brave Sir Kip Knight, whose invention "improves upon the 80 year old One-Time Pad encryption turning it into a 'Many-Time Pad'", and thusly wanted to know how to best turn this magnificent discovery into money?
Christ, that's like finding out that a product advertised as "The World's Fastest Sorting Program" uses Bubble Sort internally
...And just like Bubble Sort is quite fast on already sorted data, VME can be secure if you only feed it data that's already been securely encrypted elsewhere:-)
Oh no! Now I gave them a future marketing product testimonial? "Unknown person says: VME... secure... encrypted!":-O
Okay, that was just the decryptor, but IIRC it was broken (found weak) also elsewhere in sci.crypt. Bruce Schneier mentions them back in 1999... in his snakeoil column.
Java isn't primarily a web scripting language like PHP. In fact, the less Java I see on the web the happier I'll be.
Applets are dead. They never lived. Java is an application language, not a scripting-hack (much unlike PHP which is very web-centered. Do they even ship a stand-alone interpreter on win32 anymore?).
I'll also have to disagree with another poster who felt that applets were "everywhere". I as good as never see applets on the web.
I'm not a java fanboy or anything, but come on, applets and the web is 2% of what Java really is.
I've heard a quote to the effect of "The election of an American President is far too important to be left solely in the hands of Americans". I think it was some Englishman that said it a fairly long time ago. Anyone got the exact quote and source?
[...] new HD. And I didnt spring for the absolutely necessary 8meg cache version either.
Then you're probably missing out on the three year warrany which goes with that option. Now, as long as that's a choice you've made, then it's no problem, I'm just saying that chosing to pay (the rather small premium IMO) for 8MB cache isn't always done solely for performance reasons.
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This makes me remember this post on linux-kernel where Milan Roubal ask for help with breaking the 10 IDE devices "barrier":
(emphasis added)
I've only been to demoparties, but I'd say one or two females per hundred males is typical.
Been a while, might be better nowadays. Women usually get in for free too.
They're basically restating the old "640KB ought to be enough" line (as it were)
How about an "Ask Slashdot" with Hank Mishkoff of www.taubmansucks.com and/or Paul Levy of Public Citizen? Their fight and eventual win against Taubman and their crooked lawyers (just read the account and you'll see -- they're lying and distorting throughout the process, and frankly I find it amazing what they *get away* with[0]) is not only important in itself, but the way Hank documented it is an inspiration to all. It provides real insight into fighting a corporation out the crush you.
Great work by the team of Public Citizen; Press Release (Won appeal)
Here's an article in the Dallas Observer about the case -- check the spin Taubman tries! (third paragraph from the end)
[0] Maybe we should Ask Slashdot with Julie from Gifford-Krass-Groh-Sprinkle and ask her how she sleeps at night. "Great", I guess :-\
The whole point of all this is to make it simple and efficient, which is to say cheap to do these transactions. Now you're saying that retailers -- in addition to the software for the Peppercoin system -- also need to invest in software and statisticians to make sure they're not being ripped off? Not to mention that a slight bias could require millions of transactions to detect.
As has been said, the article and the Peppercoin site both are devoid of any real details on this scheme. Unless there's a way around this trust problem, it could become a serious problem.
Arguments to the effect of "but you already have to trust someone" or "you must trust VISA" are all missing the point. Sharing the problems of other systems doesn't make this one any better, and it'll have to be significantly better for it to work.
We'll see, maybe Rivest will come around and explain it so even I can understand it.
Sounds, from reading that short article, like the merchants must trust Peppercoin? Why should they?
No.
Jee-aah! Another language! That's great, because we can never have too many of these. I was just thinking to myself, "Gee, I wish I had another markup language to learn".
(obl: karma to burn)
I don't know if I've ever read anything by him before. I might have, once or twice. I think I remember seeing an alt.fan.dave-barry ng, or was that a .die.die.die? Maybe both.
Anyway, I laughed once, at the idea of a cell phone capable of jamming.
I saw some more attempts at being funny. They did not provoke the same erection. rejection. reaction. (<-- like that)
"Normally this would point back at the pc-link server and the streamium would just access the mp3 file through there, but you could give it a url for some mp3 stream somewhere on the internet."
I see a fireware upgrade in the near future :-\
Yes, like in Opera.
The reason I see those as the most useful is because you typically do them while "off keyboard". If I open a new window it's very likely that I'm going to have to type something into it anyway, so opening the window using a guesture instead of pressing ctrl+n isn't a big win if you measure in "minimizing movement" which seems to be my optimization critera.
A case can be made for other functions in the same way -- reload certainly is "off keyboard", but I still hit F5 or click the reload-button, probably becase I'm so very used to it in conjunction with the relative rareness of that operation (as compared to navigation)
No idea, but StrokeIt sounds similar.
Personally I feel the only gestures worth bothering with is the hold-mousebutton-click-other for navigating back/forward.
Of course the need for prototyping diminish as you move from "to boldly go.." to "let's crap out another pointless FPS clone".
It sounds to me that you describe a technical test and not a game-play protoptype, which would have most of the elements of the game, albeit in very nonpolished state, possibly hardcoded/scripted all the way.
You've _GOT_ to be kidding me. This is what the article says:
Meanwhile, "PlanetSide" is nearing completion, with a public beta test scheduled for the end of this month.
So far, so good... now here's the kicker:
The game, which has seen "drastic design changes in the last four months" according to McDaniel
So basically Scott McDaniel, which is the vice president of marketing and public relations for Sony Online Entertainment, is saying that instead of the QA-only sessions meant to go at the end of a project, they've just implemented DRASTIC DESIGN CHANGES and they're going to release it soon?!
Hello, anyone home? The PR-guy is basically confessing that this is going to be a fucked bugfest which was largely developed with no clear design in mind.
Sound great. Gotta admire the honesty though. Haha.
Prototype early. If the fun isn't there in the prototype, you're just playing for "luck" to make it a success.
Because the people at the Department of Labor is as ignorant about encryption as whoever posted this here?
Actually I remember somewhere someone calling them up to find out if this was real (that is, if the contract happened). I don't remember the outcome of that, but it's probably googable.
Dear Slashdot. I'd like to know whatever happened to brave-brave Sir Kip Knight, whose invention "improves upon the 80 year old One-Time Pad encryption turning it into a 'Many-Time Pad'", and thusly wanted to know how to best turn this magnificent discovery into money?
Is he now making millions of $$$ off his patents?
BWAHAHAHAH!
Christ, that's like finding out that a product advertised as "The World's Fastest Sorting Program" uses Bubble Sort internally
...And just like Bubble Sort is quite fast on already sorted data, VME can be secure if you only feed it data that's already been securely encrypted elsewhere :-)
Oh no! Now I gave them a future marketing product testimonial? "Unknown person says: VME ... secure ... encrypted!" :-O
VME_RAND(r) ( (r)=((r)*0x19660du+0x3c6ef35fu)&VME_MAXINT )
Humor! Looks like a linear-congruential generator with lot's and lot's of meaningless obfuscation around.
Very common in newbie ciphers.
Okay, that was just the decryptor, but IIRC it was broken (found weak) also elsewhere in sci.crypt. Bruce Schneier mentions them back in 1999... in his snakeoil column.
I haven't read the article (c'mon!) but I saw the mentions of VME, which...well... was broken.
It's snakeoil. Just marketing, no security. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Too expensive, especially in terms of yields. The cache use a _large_ area of the die. Larger core, more room for defects.
Java isn't primarily a web scripting language like PHP. In fact, the less Java I see on the web the happier I'll be.
Applets are dead. They never lived. Java is an application language, not a scripting-hack (much unlike PHP which is very web-centered. Do they even ship a stand-alone interpreter on win32 anymore?).
I'll also have to disagree with another poster who felt that applets were "everywhere". I as good as never see applets on the web.
I'm not a java fanboy or anything, but come on, applets and the web is 2% of what Java really is.
I've heard a quote to the effect of "The election of an American President is far too important to be left solely in the hands of Americans". I think it was some Englishman that said it a fairly long time ago. Anyone got the exact quote and source?
[...] new HD. And I didnt spring for the absolutely necessary 8meg cache version either.
Then you're probably missing out on the three year warrany which goes with that option. Now, as long as that's a choice you've made, then it's no problem, I'm just saying that chosing to pay (the rather small premium IMO) for 8MB cache isn't always done solely for performance reasons.